Garter-clasp.



No. 685,982. Patented.N0v. 5, l90l. E. GUT MANN.

U GARTEB CLASP.

(Application filed Mar. 6, 1901. (No Model.)

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NlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL GUTMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARTER-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,982, dated November 5, 1901.

Application filed March 6, 1901. Serial No. 50,029. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMIL GUTMANN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garter-Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in garter-clasps; and it consists in a clasp comprising a pair of jaws, one of the jaws having a yielding socket-piece and the other of the jaws having a stud or projection adapted to enter the socket or recess in the socket'piece for clamping a garment therein.

A further object is to provide a garterclasp which will absolutely clamp the garment engaged thereby against all liability of slipping, a cushion at the same time being provided between the inner jaw and the limb of the wearer for preventing the chafing or bruising of the limb.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is a perspective view of the clasp in its open position. .Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section through the clasp in its closed position with a portion of a garment-clamp therein. Fig. 3 is an outer view of the clasp. Fig. 4 is an inner view of the same. is a side view of the clasp. Fig. 6is a detail View in perspective of the yielding socketpiece, and Fig. 7 is a vertical central section through the same in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 6.

The inner jaw of the clasp is denoted bya and the outer jaw by b. In the present instance the outer jaw b is hinged to the inner jaw a by a pintle c, which passes through ears (1, turned outwardlyfromthe inner jaw a, and ears e, turned inwardly from the outer jaw 12. The clasp is normally held in its open adjustment by means of a spring f, which in the present instance surrounds the pintle c and has its opposite ends pressing against the adjacent faces of the jaws a and b. The inner jaw a is provided with a yielding socket piece g, having a socket or recess t', which is adapted to receive a stud or projection h, projected inwardly from the free end of the outer jaw 12.

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which the surrounding walls of a hole kin the free end of the inner jaw snugly fit. This will leave a portion of the yielding socketpiece projecting inwardly and another portion projecting outwardly from the faces of the inner jaw of the clasp. The inwardlyprojecting portion of the yielding socket-piece forms acushion between the clasp and thelimh of the wearer, thus preventing the chafing or bruising of the limb.

The stud or projection h in the free end of the outer jaw 12 is preferably made of a flatended cylindrical form of substantially the same diameter as the hole 2' in the socketpiece g, so that when the garment Zis clamped within the socket-piece by the closing of the clasp the walls of the hole 1 in the socketpiece will be forced outwardly, so as to securely lock the garment within the socket.

This stud or projection It may be formed integral with the jaw 12 or rigidly secured thereto, as may be found desirable.

The means which I have shown for locking the clasp in its closed position consists of a locking-lever m,hinged between a pair of cars n, extended outwardly from the inner jaw a. The short arm of the lever is fitted to engage the outer jaw 19 of the clasp and positively force it inwardly when the long arm of the lever is swung in one direction, and said short arm is adapted to release the outer jaw b of the clasp when the long arm of the lever is .swung in the opposite direction.

The clasp may be secured to the garter 0 in any well-known or approved manner.

To more firmly secure the socket-piece gin its position within the inner j aw a of the clasp, I may provide the outer edge of the jaw in proximity to the socket-piece with a narrow outwardly-turned rim 1).

It is evident that changes might be resorted to in the construction, form, and arrangement of the several parts without departing from ing socket-piece having a peripheral annular groove or recess fitted to snugly receive the surrounding Walls of the hole for locking the socket-piece to the jaw and the other jaw having a stud or projection arranged to enter the socket-piece to clamp agarment therein, substantially as set forth.

3. A garter-clasp comprising a pair of jaws, the one havinga hole therethrough and an outwardly-turn ed rim in proximity to the hole, a socket-piece of yielding material engaging the surrounding walls of the hole and the inner wall of the outwardly-turned rim whereby the socket-piece is held firmly in position within the jaw, the other jaw being provided with a stud or projection arranged to enter the socket-piece to clamp a garment therein, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presenee of two witnesses, this 2d day of March, 1901.

EMIL GUTMANN.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, HENRY THIENIE. 

